# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamalakanta-bhattacharya-q1722836
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:23:31.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamalakanta-bhattacharya-q1722836"
name: "Kamalakanta Bhattacharya"
slug: "kamalakanta-bhattacharya-q1722836"
description: "Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1853–1936) was a prominent essayist and poet belonged to the Oronodoi era of Assamese literature. He was born on 23 December 1853 in Gorehagi village, Biswanath Chariali, Sonitpur district, Assam. He was popularly known as 'Agnikobi'. Politically, he was strongly nationalistic. He opposed the introduction of Bengali as the official language of Assam in 1871. At the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress in 1886 in Calcutta, he participated as a delegate for Assam. In 1929 he sat as Secretary General of the Organization Culture Asam Sahitya Sabha ago. He was also the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1929 held at Jorhat district, Assam. He campaigned for the abolition of the box security regulations and promoted the education of women. He also participated in the swadeshi movement in 1905–06."
tagline: "Assamese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kamalakanta_Bhattacharya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1853-12-23"
deathDate: "1936-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             9.017094017094015
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump